Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer
short story
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
Gloria Naylor
American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place , Linden Hills and Mama Day .
Beverley Nichols
English writer, playwright and public speaker
Edna O’Brien
Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer
Flannery O’Connor
American novelist, short story writer and essayist
Frank O’Connor
Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs
Tillie Olsen
American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
L. M. Montgomery
Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period